He was in great pain
and it meant that he would be in casts for twelve weeks. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. ”
“And such a beast of a one,” Sydney remarked vigorously. Impressed with this idea, he paused for a moment to
listen. Heaven alone knows why. ‘En tout
cas, it is not reasonable that I could be at all in love with him. There, that sounds frightfully involved, doesn’t it, but
perhaps you can make out what I mean. "
"Forgive you!" echoed his mother, with a look radiant with delight. Somehow or
other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him
during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of
those women with whom he had been brought into contact. Was there
no echo anywhere in Miss Stanley’s pacified brain? Those empty rooms, if they
were empty, were the equivalents of astoundingly decorated predecessors. I did all for the best, I'm sure. ‘Have you
any more pretty toys like that knife about you?’
‘The girl’s a regular arsenal,’ Hilary snapped, giving up into his senior’s hand
the nasty little weapon he had snatched.
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